Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Curious Relations

Sir Max Beerbohm, ‘Mr Browning Brings a Lady of Rank and Fashion to See Mr Rossetti’ 1916
Max Beerbohm, Mr. Browning Brings a Lady to Meet Mr. Rossetti, 1916

By William d'Arfey, edited by William Plomer, New York, William Slone, 1947

 This novel was suggested by an article in The Guardian listing the top ten books about servants.
  Written under a pseudonym by a rich Edwardian, this novel is a series of fairy tales about the eccentric members of his upper-crust family, the d'Arfeys and the Mountfaucons.  This is very similar in tone to Beerbohm's The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson.  Even if I fancy myself an anthropologist, I really can't fathom this bizarre world of inherited wealth and absolute security.
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